Machine for the manufacture of fellies



(No Model.)

J. W. DANN. MACHINE FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF FELLIES.

No. 397,900. Patented Feb. 19,- 1889.

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JESSE \V. DANN, OF (.OTiUMBl S, OHIO.

MACHINE FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF FELLIES.

SFECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 397,900, dated February 19, 1889.

Application filed-November 21, 1883. Serial No.112,340. (No model.)

all whom it may concern,-

Be it known that I, JESSE XV. DANN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Columbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improy'ements in Machines for the Manufacture of Follies, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan, and Fig. 2 an end elevation, of a planing-machine adapted to practice in part my method. Fig. 3 is a detail of the folly-guide in perspective; Fig. 4, a felly-strip in the condition in which it leaves the machine; Fig. 5, a portion of a felly made in accordance with my method, and Fig. 6 a similar portion of a folly made in accordance with the old method.

Like letters refer lo like parts inv all the figures.

llerctofore follies have been bent to the desired form and subsequently beveled and finishcd by a planing-machine specially constructed for the purpose, orfinished by handtools, and in either case there is a difficulty in producing a perfect product in that the fibers on the inner face and the edges of the same are in the process of bending roughened and corrugated, as shown in Fig. 6, by reason of the uneven condensation of the fiber, and when in this condition the process of beveling by planing-tools, either machine orhand, tends to tear out portions of the condensed fiber, forming upon the inner or upper surface, f, of the felly indentations, depressions, or pockcts, and the process, aside from being difficult and harder on the tools employed, by reason of the corrugations formed in the bending process, produces a felly the inner or upper surface of which presents a variegated grain, the upper portions of the corrugations only being removed, and a smooth perfect grain is producible only by cutting clear below the condensed grain, resulting in increased waste of material and labor, as well as a consequent increased cost of manufacture. The product of old methods is therefore distinguishable by its roughened transversely corrugated and pitted inner or upper surface, and, as hereinafter specified, the product of my improved of the folly-strip and felly F.

method is distinguishable by its smooth inner or upper surface, having an uninterrupted natural grain lengthwise and free from corrugations, pits, and depressions, as shown in Fig. 5. I have discovered a method whereby the objectionable features of fellies as heretofore made are avoided, and said method consists in beveling the felly-strip before it is bent.

My invention also consists in certain means for beveling the strips, as hereinafter described, and specifically set forth in the claims.

A represents the bed of a planing-machine, having the cutter-roll B and feed-rolls C D, all of the usual construction.

E is aform or pattern-bed, provided with longitudinal grooves E It", the former being of such contour as to receive a square strip and (the bottom and sides of said grooves being inclined) to present the upper surface of said strip in an inclined position, so that when the form or pattern-bed with a strip in the groove is passed through the planer said upper surface of the strip is planed off angularly, thus producing one of the beveled sides The bottom of the groove E is inclined at a greater angle than the groove E, so that when the strip F is turned end for end and the beveled side placed downward in the groove E' and passed through the planer with the form or pattern-bed the upper square side is beveled to the same augle as the opposite side.

So far as the means ofprmlucing the beveled sides of the felly are concerned, they are independent of the method hereinafter set forth, and I deem it proper to state that said method is not in the least dependent upon the means thus far described, as the strip maybe beveled by any suitable means, the time in the process or method at which the beveling is done being the essential features, rather than any means for producing the bevel.

I'take a thoroughly dry and seasoned, sawed, planed, or dressed strip of suitable proportions and first bevel the opposite sides thereof. I then by any well-known means bend said beveled strip to the desired shape for a felly.

I find that a dry or seasoned strip will retain the shape to which it is bent better than log stock which is not dry and seasoned, and I i have found by experience great diflienit-y in beveiing' follies after they are bent, by reason I of the swelling, Cli1l11')ll1g, and ronghening of 1 the grain by the bending proee s, and I find, I also, that the preliminary dressing and beveling of the strip prodnees a folly whieh lree from pits, wn'iegated or ehangeable grain, and i transverse eorrngz'itions, and that in fittingjieilies so made in wheels there is less labor re- 5 qnired, and a smooth. and nnilorin grain to work upon, and not much liability in the grain 1 to chip or tear out.

I do not claim, broadly, an y features of the Z well-known planing-machine herein shown, except as a part oi the eon'ibined 'iinplen'ients which I employ.

Iiavingfleseribed ]ll \'lll\'(ll1 i(fll,\Ylltliiiflllill] I is 1. A planing-inaehine form or pattern-bed having a series of grooves the inittoins and walls each of which are inclined at dilt'ereni 5 angles to each other in ear-h 'rmwe, snbstair i tially as speeiiied. l

2. The combination, with a wood-planing machine, of a form or pattern-bed having a groove deeper on one side than on the other and an inclined. bottom, and adapted to present one side of a square strip, and also a groove having a less inclined bottom and adapted to present a beveled strip angularly to the cutter thereof, substantially as shown and d eseril )ed.

3. The eoinbii'lation of the cutter-head 13, feed-rolls C, bed A, and between said. feedroils the form or pattern-bed E, having the grooves E E the angles formed by the sides and bottom of which differ in inclination, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I ai'fix inysignatnrein 40 Z presence of two witnesses.

J lCSS E W. DANN.

Witnesses:

H. (I. bnrujnvonl), C. M. 'LAsn'. 

